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Time to replace my Homelab – Part 1

My current homelab contains 2x HP ML10v2, 1x HP Microserver Gen8 and 2 Switches (1 Mikrotik Cloud Switch 24 Port, Zyxcel 16 Port). This setup was sufficient for a long time. But due to the increased resource requirements of some VMware products and my activities with vROPs, Log Insight and other solutions I require more resources. Furthermore I would like to reduce from 3 to 1 server and run more activities virtually based on the lab scripts from William Lam.

Current Setup:

Hostname

CPU

Memory

Storage

Add-On

xmesx01e

Intel® Pentium® G3240 (3.1GHz/2-core/3MB/54W)

32 GB

1x 240GB Intel SSD

1x HP Quad Gbit NIC

xmesx02e

Intel® Pentium® G3240 (3.1GHz/2-core/3MB/54W)

20 GB

1x 240GB Intel SSD

1x HP Quad Gbit NIC

Storage (Freenas on HP Microserver Gen8):

Intel® Pentium® G2020T (2.5GHz/2-core/3MB/35W)

16 GB

4x 2TB WD RED

1x HP Smart Array P410 + 512MB Cache Modul + Battery

New Setup:

Category

Description

Type:

HP Proliant DL380 G7

Chipset

Intel ® 5520 Tylersburg + Intel ICH 10

CPU Typ

Intel ® Xeon ® CPU L5630

CPU Speed

2.13 GHz

Cores / Threads

2 CPU(s), 4 Cores per CPU, 2 Thread(s) per Core, 16 total

L1, L2, L3 Cache

32k+32k, 256k, 12288k (12 MB)

Memory

32 GB DDR3 ECC

Installed

8 x 4 GB

SAS - Controller:

HP Smart Array P410i Controller

Controller PCIe:

1x GB LAN Broadcom PCIe Karte

2x Fiber Channel Finsar Singel Port PCIe card

Disks

8x 2,5“ SAS HDDs

The plan is to extend the machine with 8x 146GB SAS disks and additionally upgrade the memory to 144GB at least. The FC card will be removed as it will not be used in my Homelab.

If someone is interested in buying one or two HP ML10v2 please send my a message.